Innocent saw the perfect PR opportunity when a Facebook message addressed to it read: "Hey Innocent, I love your drinks. Can I make a suggestion please?"
There was nothing out of the ordinary in Pete Wentland's message. If anything, it all seemed rather innocent (pun was fully intended).
A few hours went by before the company replied. Light-hearted by nature, the smoothie (as well as other treats) company said: Go ahead, Pete. We are all ears. In fact, in the interest of accuracy, we're not quite ALL ears. We're legs as well. And arms. Hands too. Don't forget heads. You get the idea. Anyway, we're listening."
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To be fair, Innocent, that corporate, PR bullshit reply is enough to rile anybody up.
Well, Wentland's reply didn't hold much back: " Haha, you're funny. I just wondered if, now you've been bought out by Coca-Cola, you'd consider changing your name to 'Guilty', out of respect for the villagers suffering drought and water contamination due to your bottling plants or the murdered trade union leaders; or will you still be peddling the quirky, ethical image? Can't wait to hear from you, Pete x."
Image credit: Facebook/Pete Wentland
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Image credit: Facebook/Pete Wentland
Well, as you can imagine, Innocent's legal team the company did not reply to Wentland, so he continued to throw shit in its direction. He wrote, rather poetically: "You can pretend to be my friend with a smiley face and a haiku that ain't gonna make me like you. Behind your quirky conversation there lurks an evil corporation that murders, bribes and pillages. That poisons land and villagers. Your disdain for humanity is bordering on infinite. I wouldn't even drink it if still had cocaine in it. So give it up Innocent, you're dead. You're a joke. There ain't nothing cute about covering up for Coke."
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Facebook/Pete Wentland
As yet, Innocent is yet to come back to Wentland with an answer to his original question. He did well, though, to claw the company in with a clever comment to then let out the monster of all complaints once he got the company's attention.
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